i believe its patently bad when it comes to AI.
1) it could create an economic bubble if the only people interested in LLMs are LLM providers (unlikely scenario though)
the real issue is 2) deepfakes and the end of "authentic video". Let me explain.
Now, bearing in mind that most of us can still recognize a Veo 3 clip instantly, generative AI videos are getting better and better, and soon old people will be seeing clips on facebook of presidential candidates telling them not to vote, or that they're satan worshippers, or something, i don't know.
But here's the key - video AI takes a lot of resources. A text GPT can reasonably be run on a researcher's computer with a good GPU. Could the videos that look 90% real be done without billions of dollars of investment from Google and OpenAI? No.
When there are AI political ads on the TV and Google or Meta or some other AI company is decrying these or lobbying against them and saying "Veo is meant for good! We didn't intend for it to be used this way! Read the TOS!", remember they're the ones who enabled it.
TL;DR Google put billions into Video AI to create a product worth buying, that product is a threat to democracy and rational thought and probably wouldn't exist without their investment. QED, not inevitable.
Notably as well, this is more equivalent to a former housemate taking something of yours as they leave, instead of a burglary. The phrase "hacking back" in the title implied to me that an outsider hacked their servers. Not that hacking back would be ethical either way, but I felt misled.
This has nothing to do with creating housing for the homeless. Homeless shelters already exist. This is about creating affordable housing for people moving into an area that can't support the population it already has. Until all the appropriations that were made for creating additional reservoirs start actually seeing results there shouldn't be ANY new construction.
Not sure about the title but I can tell you that having a sense of smell is not a sign of being covid-negative. You can get 2 15-minute covid tests at walmart for 20 bucks
I’m aware that quick tests are available but this was just for my knowledge. My parents live in a place (not the US) where quick tests are harder. I wanted to reassure them.
Loss of smell (not the stuffy nose kind) is a good indicator that you have covid.
Not losing smell tells you almost nothing, especially since Omicron. Before that, even if it was frequent, most of the people with covid didn't have this symptom so it was only a weak indicator.
But speaking of reassurance, not losing taste and smell is great simply because you don't lose taste and smell. It is one of the most annoying "mild" covid symptoms. And severe cases are becoming less and less common.
Loss of smell was a symptom for some but not all. Smelling does not imply you are not carrying the virus. In fact you can have the virus with no symptoms at all, or have very severe symptoms that require hospitalization.
The website calls it the Voys app but I think it's actually called Vialer: https://github.com/open-voip-alliance/vialer It's the only full app in their repo and it fits the description they gave on the website.
rateyourmusic. It has a recommendation algorithm that is definitely better than Spotify's* (it's tweakable too!), but the real ticket is reading the endless user generated reviews and lists. You can browse genres by top-rated albums, there are featured reviews from all kinds of genres on the front page, there's a featured list page or you can find lists albums were mentioned in on their album page then check out that list to see what users categorized it with. If you get bored, you can click on a user's review on an album you like and see what other albums they rated highly. Maybe you have similar interests and find your next favorite album.
*Only issue I have with the recommendation algorithm is that once you rate an album it isn't removed from the recommendation list. Makes me doubt what the algorithm is actually taking into consideration when generating a list.
